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Animal Rights Quotes by Tom Regan
- To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask…
- Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit…
- What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are…
- If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan,…
- Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view…
- All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our…
More Animal Rights Quotes
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal… — Brigitte Bardot
- The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile… — Neal Barnard
- If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. — Neal Barnard
- Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and… — Neal Barnard
- I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's… — Claire Danes
- Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. — George Bernard Shaw
- People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. — Richard Gere
- It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights -… — Daryl Hannah
- Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne